Seasonal Wild Flowers

Lax-flowered Sea-lavender

Limonium humile

Plumbaginaceae

July to September

It is found on the coast in the Northwest and parts of East

Anglia and the South.

See the BSBI distribution map for Lax-flowered Sea-

It grows on muddy, estuarine saltmarshes.

Lax-flowered Sea-lavender is a native, perennial herb,

growing up to 30cm.

Flowers are lilac and small.

Leaves are oblong lanceolate.

Stems are much branched, branching from below the

middle.

Lax-flowered Sea-lavender,

saltmarsh, Lune estuary

Flowers

Branch

Close-up of flower

Purple anthers, white stigmas

Leaves

Branching stems